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Any Lords,
General that Office
24th January 1861,
On receipt of your Lordships letter
of the 214 viltine, Iat once caused a letter to be written to the Peninsular and briental
Haus Navigation Company, offering, to pay Ahrens the sum of £sure a year for thes fourth service in each month between Southampton and Alexandrin, and during the frist dir months of this spear, at the Mate of £2000, per double hip for the
Accond service in the mouth between Bombay and huvia,
This affer the Company accepted at the same time preserving their claims on account of the mails already Conveyed withious- Remumuration to and from China and
Stipulating for an early consideration of
their request to be relieved from the obt
obligatin of conveying Goverstiment passengers at reduced rates of fare.
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I liave suice peceived from the Company the enclosed better dated the with mistank
The Forst, Commissioners
of the Treasury.
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